diff --git a/app/models.py b/app/models.py
index ac5578d1f4f495cc0a2389eaedb99ce05d764fdf..5c08da5965c80cec503c8c4db921da4b122dcef3 100644
--- a/app/models.py
+++ b/app/models.py
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ class Corpus(db.Model):
     id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
     creation_date = db.Column(db.DateTime(), default=datetime.utcnow)
     description = db.Column(db.String(255))
+    status = db.Column(db.String(16))
     title = db.Column(db.String(32))
     user_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('users.id'))
     # Relationships